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Prestigious Law School Recognizes Shluchim

Florida Coastal is a leading Law School located in Jacksonville, FL. Because of its excellent reputation, Jewish Students nationwide flock to Florida Coastal in pursuit of entering the legal profession. Monday the school recognized the work of Rabbi Shmuli and Chana Novack of Chabad of Southside, FL.

On Monday, November 5th, the School and JLSA, the Jewish Law Student Association, recognized Rabbi Shmuli and Chana Novack of Chabad of Southside for their tireless efforts on behalf of the Jewish Student population and the School as a whole. Chabad of Southside hosts Shabbat dinners, regular ongoing classes at the School, holiday programs throughout the year and counseling to the students whenever needed.

Inna Vernikov, president of JLSA nominated the Novacks for this honor and presented them with JLSA’s whimsical t-shirt designed by JLSA treasurer Amanda Rogers, emblazoned “Experienced Legal Writers Since 1312 BCE”

Deans Alicia Edwards and Thomas Taggart presented a gift to the Novacks expressing their appreciation for their work at Florida Coastal, fostering diversity and contributing to the character of the school. Rabbi Novack thanked the School for their close relationship and expressed his appreciation for their commitment to each and every student.

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10 Comments

  • Chaim

    It’s wonderful that they recognized the good work of the shluchim!

    But in which circles is Florida Coastal considered a “prestigious” law school?

  • Inna V

    Why do you people want to focus on the negative and pick apart every word? It’s a law school which by the way wins a tremendous amount of mock trial and moot court competitions Nationwide. In addition, it is significantly more difficult to be a good student at this law school than a top tier school, because of the severely harsh curve. Just because it’s a new school and needs time to build up it’s name, does not make it a bad school. And for those of you who obviously are uninformed, rank means 0. We learn the same subjects, study from the same books and take the same bar exam as Harvard law students. Focusing on the positive – us recognizing the work of our Rabbi and celebrating JLSA, would make you all seem so much nicer!

  • Yelena

    Truly incredible. It is so nice for the students to recognize Rabbi Shmuli and Chana for their endless support. Thank you for the wonderful article. We are very proud of the JLSA and Chabad of Southside!!

  • In defense of Chaim

    Responding to Inna V:

    Firstly, I referred to the leading word, “prestigious,” in the title of the article. In my view, this is hardly “picking apart every word.”

    Your point about students winning moot court competitions is well taken, and is a tribute to the abilities of the students as well as their supervising faculty.

    I fully understand your point about harsh curves in lower tiered schools. Thus, students who manage to beat the curve have obviously exhibited great diligence and aptitude in their studies as compared to the rest of their class. Consider, however, that this only serves to support my point that Florida Coastal, as an institution, may not be “prestigious” as the title of this article suggests.

    To your final point that Florida Coastal students study the same subjects as students at Harvard: this is absolutely correct. However, the fact that this is a common characteristic of all law schools seems to undermine using it as a measure of a particular school’s prestige. Contracts, Torts, and Constitutional Law and the bar are certainly part of the law school experience, but their mere presence at FCU does not make FCU prestigious.

  • Noson A Kopel

    To #6 and all other critics:

    Perhaps other Law Schools may be more “prestigious” than FCU. That doesn’t mean that FCU isn’t. Probably the top 80% of law schools in this country can be rated as excellent. We just have high standards. I rated in the top 98% on the nationwide Multistate Bar Exam, as a graduate of Brooklyn Law School! I attended bar review classes with students from Fordham and Columbia, where I had to explain things to them. I credit no-doze with helping me keep awake in class. At Harvard, Yale, Columbia, and NYU with their Pass/Pass grading systems, it’s not necessary. So I have heard.

  • L1 Student

    Thanks Chaim! I opened this article due to being intrigued by the use of the word “prestigious” for a Tier 4 law school, glad I wasn’t the only one confused. That being said, there is nothing wrong with attending a lower ranked law school, however, whether you agree with rankings or not, to call it prestigious is inaccurate. to #6 – your argument can be weakened substantially, as I’m sure you’ll agree once you think about what you wrote objectively.

  • Inna V

    Ok smart people. If any of you think that using nice vocabulary words is going to make you sound nicer, it does not. My point was that perhaps the author who wrote the article mischaracherized the school’s rank or what not, but the purpose of this article was not what all of you fine people are focusing on. Who cares about how prestigious the school is. This is not an advertisement for the school. It’s an article about the school being hospitable to the Jewish students and recognizing the work of Rabbi Novack. If you all want to argue about my school being rank one or four, it might serve you better to visit a different website. On that note, I am going to rock when I am an attorney, and my clients will not ask me or care what the rank of my school was! Enjoy your extremely important discussion about the school rank, which is beyond irrelevant on this page.